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{{Character
|name= George Stacy
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|name= George Stacy Large
 
|image= Captain Stacy.png
 
|image= Captain Stacy.png
 
|status= Deceased
 
|status= Deceased
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|aka=Bollocko bill Jameson III
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|family= [[Helen Stacy]] <small>(wife)</small><br/>[[Gwen Stacy]] <small>(daughter; deceased)</small><br/>[[Philip Stacy]] <small>(son)</small><br/>[[Howard Stacy]] <small>(son)</small><br/>[[Simon Stacy]] <small>(son)</small>
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|family= [[Helen Stacy]] <small>(wife)</small><br/>[[Gwen Stacy]] <small>(daughter)</small><br/>[[Philip Stacy]] <small>(son)</small><br/>[[Howard Stacy]] <small>(son)</small><br/>[[Simon Stacy]] <small>(son)</small>
 
|gender= Male
 
|gender= Male
|job= Police captain at the [[New York Police Department]]
 
 
|portrayer= [[Denis Leary]]
 
|portrayer= [[Denis Leary]]
 
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|films= ''[[The Amazing Spider-Man]]'' <br> ''[[The Amazing Spider-Man 2]]'' <small>(hallucination)</small>
 
|films= ''[[The Amazing Spider-Man]]'' <br> ''[[The Amazing Spider-Man 2]]'' <small>(hallucination)</small>
 
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|realname = George Stacy}}
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{{Quote|You're gonna make enemies. People will get hurt. Sometimes the people closest to you. So I want you promise me something, okay? Leave Gwen out of it. Promise me that. Huh? You promise me.|George Stacy to [[Spider-Man]]|The Amazing Spider-Man}}
Captain '''George Stacy''' (died May 1, 2013)<ref>[http://thedailybugle.tumblr.com/post/84444769839/by-ned-leeds-today-marks-the-one-year-anniversary The Daily Bugle - Tumblr]</ref>, better known as simply '''Captain Stacy''', was a captain of the [[New York Police Department]] and was the protective father of [[Gwen Stacy]].
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Captain '''George Stacy''' (died May 1, 2013)<ref>[http://thedailybugle.tumblr.com/post/84444769839/by-ned-leeds-today-marks-the-one-year-anniversary The Daily Bugle - Tumblr]</ref>, better known as simply '''Captain Stacy''', was a captain of the [[New York Police Department]] and was the father of [[Gwen Stacy]].
   
 
==Biography==
 
==Biography==
 
===''[[The Amazing Spider-Man]]''===
 
===''[[The Amazing Spider-Man]]''===
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When [[Spider-Man|Peter Parker]] begins hunting down [[Cash register thief|Uncle Ben's killer]] and making himself known to the public, Stacy immediately dislikes the mysterious costumed crime fighter.
Captain Stacy was the man leading the investigation into [[Spider-Man]]'s vigilantism. However, too eager to capture and put Spider-Man behind bars, he does not believe that [[Curt Connors|Dr. Curt Connors]] has been turned into a giant [[Curt Connors|lizard]]. His daughter starts to date Peter Parker, a boy going to her school. He and Peter got into a fight that turned into an argument while eating dinner at the Stacy home. Peter believed that Spider-Man was helping the police by bringing criminals to justice while George believed him to be nothing more than a masked vigilante. This caused Peter to leave the table, <span>but not without apologizing to the Captain</span> first, because he felt the Captain was slandering Spider-Man's name.
 
   
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Later, Captain Stacy opens the door to Gwen's room and finds her talking to Peter Parker, whom she had invited to her house for dinner earlier that day. Although they weren't doing anything but talking, Stacy obviously isn't thrilled about the picture and becomes suspicious about Parker. At dinner, when the topic of Spider-Man comes up, Stacy discusses with his family and Peter about how he will capture the masked menace; Peter defends Spider-Man as "doing something the police can't", and begins to accidentally anger Stacy, further ruining his first impression. However, dinner is suddenly interrupted when [[The Lizard]] is spotted rampaging through the Williamsburg Bridge, and Stacy immediately goes out to hunt down the monster.
Later, Stacy almost walked in on Peter and his daughter in her room; Stacy asked Gwen if she wanted some hot chocolate, only to hear her refusal. She was acting strange, but Stacy decided not to worry about it.
 
   
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After Spider-Man saves the lives of several people and fights off the Lizard on the bridge, Stacy's hatred toward Spider-Man remains undeterred, and the next morning, he issues an arrest warrant for "the masked vigilante known as 'Spider-Man'." He continually gets New York's finest police officers to go after him but to no avail.
Captain Stacy and his fellow officers went to stop the Lizard atop [[Oscorp Tower]], only to be joined by Spider-Man. Spider-Man was briefly captured by police, after removing his mask, he soon sprang up and freed himself from his restains. He then began to take on the police assault (while at the same time trying to keep his face concealed). However, Stacy got him at gunpoint, forcing him to reveal himself, and Spider-Man turned to face him, revealing to Stacy that he was really Peter Parker. Knowing that Peter is on his side, Stacy let him go and followed him to Oscorp after learning Gwen is there. As the Lizard prepared to kill Spider-Man, Stacy arrived with a shotgun and saved him but, suddenly, the Lizard struck Stacy with its sharp claws, mortally wounding him. After Peter defeated the Lizard, Peter finds the dying captain. Stacy admitted that he was wrong about Peter and that the city ''does ''need him. He then warns Peter that with being a superhero, he will make enemies and that people (sometimes closest to him) will get hurt and it will come with sacrifices. Before he died, Stacy demanded one final promise from Parker: to keep Gwen out of it for her own safety. Peter initially agrees to it, and watches sadly as the captain dies.
 
   
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Heading back to his office at the NYPD's headquarters, Peter arrives there and tells him that Dr. Curt Connors is going to turn all of New York into powerful man-lizards and that Stacy has to help him stop him. However, Stacy, who was already disapproving of Peter from the night before, has the cops escort him out of the building, refusing to believe what Peter says. However, after contemplating it, he reluctantly has an officer run everything they have on file about Connors.
Later, Stacy has a funeral where he is honored for his work as New York's top cop, and Gwen notes that everyone, even [[Flash Thompson|Flash]], shows up, except for Peter. She arrives at his apartment, and Peter tells her that he can no longer be with her, and she realizes that her dad made him promise that. The next day in school, the two sadly ignore each other, until, in class, the teacher scolds Peter for being late, and when he says it won't happen again, she tells him not to make promises he cannot keep. Sitting behind Gwen, Peter quietly and slyly replies, "Yeah, but those are the best kind," which causes Gwen to smile, meaning that, for better or worse, Peter is going to stop honoring his promise to Captain Stacy and start dating Gwen again.
 
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After helping clean up the battle between Spider-Man and The Lizard at the school, Stacy resumes the hunt for both of them.
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That night, Lizard launches a biological attack on New York City, and while Stacy orders a squad to stop it, Stacy himself instead personally leads a chase on Spider-Man. When Spider-Man is caught in the sight of the police, Stacy's helicopter stuns Spider-Man out of the air. The cops put Spider-Man in handcuffs, but when Stacy pulls off his mask, Spider-Man quickly beats up the cops and is about to escape until Stacy gets up and holds him at gunpoint, forcing Spider-Man to freeze. Realizing the situation, Spider-Man turns around and reveals himself to be Peter Parker. Stunned, Stacy is taken back by the revelation, but Peter convinces him that he has to stop the Lizard before it reaches Oscorp where Gwen is, and Stacy reluctantly lets him go. He then heads over to Oscorp, where he runs into Gwen. He reveals to her that he knows about her boyfriend's secret, and she gives him an antidote that will cure the lizard toxin and pleads him to make sure Peter's okay.
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Eventually, Stacy somehow makes it near the top of [[Oscorp Tower]] and assists Spider-Man in defeating the Lizard. He gives Peter the antidote from Gwen and buys him time by fighting the Lizard himself. While Peter goes to switch the lizard toxin with the antidote, Stacy fires his shotgun at Lizard, but the monstrous reptile quickly heals from his wounds and attacks the Captain, mortally wounding him. Peter successfully releases the antidote into the air, but falls from the collapsing tower, and is saved by Connors, who is beginning to transform back to his normal form. Peter returns to Stacy, who is bleeding heavily. In his final moments, Stacy tells Peter that he was wrong and that New York does need Spider-Man. However, he warns Peter that being a superhero will often put the ones closest to him in danger and that it will come with sacrifices. He then forces Peter to promise that he will leave Gwen out of it, so that she is not harmed by Peter's status as Spider-Man. Peter agrees and mourns as Stacy dies.
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Later, Stacy has a funeral where he is honored for his work as New York's top cop, and Gwen notes that everyone, even [[Flash Thompson|Flash]], shows up, except for Peter. She arrives at his apartment, and Peter tells her that he can no longer be with her, and she realizes that her father made him promise that. The next day in school, the two sadly ignore each other, until, in class, the teacher scolds Peter for being late, and when he says it won't happen again, she tells him not to make promises he cannot keep. Sitting behind Gwen, Peter quietly and slyly replies, "Yeah, but those are the best kind," which causes Gwen to smile, meaning that, for better or worse, Peter is going to stop honoring his promise to Captain Stacy and start dating Gwen again.
   
 
===''[[The Amazing Spider-Man 2]]''===
 
===''[[The Amazing Spider-Man 2]]''===
George Stacy appears often as a vision and hallucination to [[Spider-Man]], haunting him for the promise he did not and does not keep about his daughter. Gwen's death at the hands of the [[Green Goblin]] proved that Stacy was right, because Peter did not keep his distance from her and thus Gwen was killed by Spider-Man's enemy after finding out that Peter was Spider-Man, who also knew Gwen.
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George Stacy appears often as a vision and hallucination to [[Spider-Man]], haunting him for the promise he did not keep and does not keep about his daughter. Gwen's death at the hands of the [[Green Goblin]] proved that Stacy was right because Peter did not keep his distance from her and thus Gwen was killed by Spider-Man's enemy after finding out that Peter was Spider-Man.
 
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==Trivia==
 
==Trivia==
* George Stacy was one of the few people to know Spider-Man's true identity before he died. The others are his daughter, Harry Osborn, and Connors.
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*The age of George Stacy differs largely from his comic book counterpart. In the movie, he was a 30-40 year old man whereas he was a grey haired old man in the comic.
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*George Stacy was one of the few people to know Spider-Man's true identity before he died. The others are his daughter, [[Harry Osborn]], and [[Curt Connors]].
* He used to believe Spider-Man was a criminal, but later when he found out Peter was Spider-Man, he began to see him as a true hero.
 
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**Both how George Stacy discovers Peter's identity was changed heavily from the comics. In the comics, he doesn't actually say how he learnt that Peter was Spiderman (Peter just commenting "he's always known") but it was implied that he simply used his deductive skills and deduced it using his abscenes. In the movie, Peter unmasks to save himself from getting shot and/or arrested. This was presumably changed because it was an unresolved loose end in the comics as to how he learnt Peter's identity.
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***As well as this, the place where he discovered it is changed. In the comics, the place is unclear (likely the police station though he doesn't reveal it until he is dying) whereas he learns it in an alley in the movie.
   
 
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Revision as of 21:07, 13 January 2022

"You're gonna make enemies. People will get hurt. Sometimes the people closest to you. So I want you promise me something, okay? Leave Gwen out of it. Promise me that. Huh? You promise me."
―George Stacy to Spider-Man[src]

Captain George Stacy (died May 1, 2013)[1], better known as simply Captain Stacy, was a captain of the New York Police Department and was the father of Gwen Stacy.

Biography

The Amazing Spider-Man

When Peter Parker begins hunting down Uncle Ben's killer and making himself known to the public, Stacy immediately dislikes the mysterious costumed crime fighter.

Later, Captain Stacy opens the door to Gwen's room and finds her talking to Peter Parker, whom she had invited to her house for dinner earlier that day. Although they weren't doing anything but talking, Stacy obviously isn't thrilled about the picture and becomes suspicious about Parker. At dinner, when the topic of Spider-Man comes up, Stacy discusses with his family and Peter about how he will capture the masked menace; Peter defends Spider-Man as "doing something the police can't", and begins to accidentally anger Stacy, further ruining his first impression. However, dinner is suddenly interrupted when The Lizard is spotted rampaging through the Williamsburg Bridge, and Stacy immediately goes out to hunt down the monster.

After Spider-Man saves the lives of several people and fights off the Lizard on the bridge, Stacy's hatred toward Spider-Man remains undeterred, and the next morning, he issues an arrest warrant for "the masked vigilante known as 'Spider-Man'." He continually gets New York's finest police officers to go after him but to no avail.

Heading back to his office at the NYPD's headquarters, Peter arrives there and tells him that Dr. Curt Connors is going to turn all of New York into powerful man-lizards and that Stacy has to help him stop him. However, Stacy, who was already disapproving of Peter from the night before, has the cops escort him out of the building, refusing to believe what Peter says. However, after contemplating it, he reluctantly has an officer run everything they have on file about Connors.

After helping clean up the battle between Spider-Man and The Lizard at the school, Stacy resumes the hunt for both of them.

That night, Lizard launches a biological attack on New York City, and while Stacy orders a squad to stop it, Stacy himself instead personally leads a chase on Spider-Man. When Spider-Man is caught in the sight of the police, Stacy's helicopter stuns Spider-Man out of the air. The cops put Spider-Man in handcuffs, but when Stacy pulls off his mask, Spider-Man quickly beats up the cops and is about to escape until Stacy gets up and holds him at gunpoint, forcing Spider-Man to freeze. Realizing the situation, Spider-Man turns around and reveals himself to be Peter Parker. Stunned, Stacy is taken back by the revelation, but Peter convinces him that he has to stop the Lizard before it reaches Oscorp where Gwen is, and Stacy reluctantly lets him go. He then heads over to Oscorp, where he runs into Gwen. He reveals to her that he knows about her boyfriend's secret, and she gives him an antidote that will cure the lizard toxin and pleads him to make sure Peter's okay.

Eventually, Stacy somehow makes it near the top of Oscorp Tower and assists Spider-Man in defeating the Lizard. He gives Peter the antidote from Gwen and buys him time by fighting the Lizard himself. While Peter goes to switch the lizard toxin with the antidote, Stacy fires his shotgun at Lizard, but the monstrous reptile quickly heals from his wounds and attacks the Captain, mortally wounding him. Peter successfully releases the antidote into the air, but falls from the collapsing tower, and is saved by Connors, who is beginning to transform back to his normal form. Peter returns to Stacy, who is bleeding heavily. In his final moments, Stacy tells Peter that he was wrong and that New York does need Spider-Man. However, he warns Peter that being a superhero will often put the ones closest to him in danger and that it will come with sacrifices. He then forces Peter to promise that he will leave Gwen out of it, so that she is not harmed by Peter's status as Spider-Man. Peter agrees and mourns as Stacy dies.

Later, Stacy has a funeral where he is honored for his work as New York's top cop, and Gwen notes that everyone, even Flash, shows up, except for Peter. She arrives at his apartment, and Peter tells her that he can no longer be with her, and she realizes that her father made him promise that. The next day in school, the two sadly ignore each other, until, in class, the teacher scolds Peter for being late, and when he says it won't happen again, she tells him not to make promises he cannot keep. Sitting behind Gwen, Peter quietly and slyly replies, "Yeah, but those are the best kind," which causes Gwen to smile, meaning that, for better or worse, Peter is going to stop honoring his promise to Captain Stacy and start dating Gwen again.

The Amazing Spider-Man 2

George Stacy appears often as a vision and hallucination to Spider-Man, haunting him for the promise he did not keep and does not keep about his daughter. Gwen's death at the hands of the Green Goblin proved that Stacy was right because Peter did not keep his distance from her and thus Gwen was killed by Spider-Man's enemy after finding out that Peter was Spider-Man.


Trivia

  • The age of George Stacy differs largely from his comic book counterpart. In the movie, he was a 30-40 year old man whereas he was a grey haired old man in the comic.
  • George Stacy was one of the few people to know Spider-Man's true identity before he died. The others are his daughter, Harry Osborn, and Curt Connors.
    • Both how George Stacy discovers Peter's identity was changed heavily from the comics. In the comics, he doesn't actually say how he learnt that Peter was Spiderman (Peter just commenting "he's always known") but it was implied that he simply used his deductive skills and deduced it using his abscenes. In the movie, Peter unmasks to save himself from getting shot and/or arrested. This was presumably changed because it was an unresolved loose end in the comics as to how he learnt Peter's identity.
      • As well as this, the place where he discovered it is changed. In the comics, the place is unclear (likely the police station though he doesn't reveal it until he is dying) whereas he learns it in an alley in the movie.

External links

References